Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend an additional $2000 in the transportation of students to and from their homes during fiscal year 1900.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $14,000 for the transportation of students to and from their homes and the Carlisle Indian School for fiscal year 1901.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to C. T. Stranahan's request to bring five students to the Carlisle Indian School from the Nez Perce Agency.
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Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School that William Bailey brought his daughter using two half rate tickets. He further requests that Bailey reimburse the school for his transportation.
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Edgar A. Allen requests an additional $3,000 for transporting students to and from their homes and the Carlisle Indian School having already exhausted the budgeted transportation funds.
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Edgar A. Allen informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School has $34,755.84 on credit with the Assistant Treasurer in New York along with sale of manufactured goods and money with Commissioner of Indian Affairs for a total balance of $40,584.28. As a result, Allen renews his request for authorization to spend an…
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Richard Henry Pratt emphasizes to the Office of Indian Affairs the need to authorize spending an additional $3,000 to transport students to and from the Carlisle Indian School.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to Office of Indian Affairs circular #92 by providing various information related to the cost of bringing and returning students to and from Carlisle.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs objection to his request to pay for a voucher to cover the expense of transporting students from Alaska to the Carlisle Indian School.
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E. A. Hitchcock, Interior Secretary, disallows all expenses incurred in securing students from Alaska from 1903.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to Education Circular No. 110 requesting data regarding transportation of students. Pratt notes that this is not applicable to Carlisle.
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William A. Mercer requests that Henry Markistum be sent to Carlisle with bill for ticket.
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William A. Mercer responds to Education Circular #119 dated April 7, 1905 asking for data to distribute funds for the transportation of students. Mercer states that as the transportation costs for Carlisle are paid from the appropriation that he believes the circular is not intended to apply to the Carlisle Indian School.
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William A. Mercer requests an increase in the funding of the Carlisle Indian School due to an increase in the cost of transporting students over the rail lines.
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William A. Mercer submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $2,343.26 for the transportation of 11 Hopi students and to build a cottage for the school's physician. An explanatory cover letter is included.
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William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for the travel of J. H. Lewis as an escort of 11 Hopi students from Fort Wingate, Arizona to the Carlisle Indian School.
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William A. Mercer provides estimates for the costs of transporting students to and from the Carlisle Indian School for the 1908 fiscal year. Included in the estimate is the actual cost from July 1, 1906 through May 26, 1907 as well as the actual number of students transported.
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Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the exact amount of money used from the support fund of the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. 1909" account to transport pupils to Carlisle from July 1 - December 31, 1908.
Chief Clerk F. M. Conser states that Indian agents and superintendents used $12,194.17…